"Really, Neil Young's Psychedelic Pill is less a tab of acid and more a madeleine. The past is so alive here you can taste it, and not just in the form of Crazy Horse, the heroically dishevelled band Young toys with when the urge takes him ... Here, Twisted Road, a single of sorts, fetes Young's heroes and contemporaries, Dylan, Roy Orbison and the Grateful Dead. Young has just published a volume of memoirs, a kind of companion piece to this album ... In word, deed and playing, Young defies easy cogency; he is a man who records and releases according to the lunar cycle. "Think I might be a pagan," concludes Driftin' Back. The man refuses to be parcelled up into neat bitstreams and that's never been clearer than on this uneven but involving album. This, it seems, is his message: embrace the sprawl".